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born 2002 · South Bend by birth
Jaden Edward Dhananjay Ivey was born February 13, 2002, in South Bend, the son of Niele Ivey — Notre Dame's women's basketball coach, herself a Fighting Irish champion and a WNBA player — and he was schooled at Marian High School in Mishawaka for three years and at La Lumiere in La Porte, the boundaries printed as they stand. At Purdue he was a consensus All-American, averaging 17.3 points, 4.9 rebounds and 3.1 assists as a sophomore, and on June 23, 2022, Detroit took him fifth overall in the NBA draft. The night's full meaning belongs to this entry and the next one together: before that evening, the city of South Bend had never produced a first-round NBA draft pick; by the end of it, it had produced two.
Sources
- Purdue University athletics, June 2022 — the fifth overall selection, the consensus All-America season and its averages, the mother-son draft record.
- The standard player record — the South Bend birth, the Marian and La Lumiere schooling.
- South Bend Tribune / Notre Dame Insider, June 23, 2022 — the two first-round picks in one night, and that the city had never had one before.